The Tuskegee Airmen
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Movie Reviews of The Tuskegee Airmen
Movie Review: Great Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband and I are movie buffs, so when we seen this movie on television we just had to purchase it. I enjoyed the movie because it is history and it displays the African-American struggle in a way that gets the point across without sounding like another freedom struggle. I loaned this tape out to a friend of mine who is Hispanic and he had no idea of what African-Americans went through and are still going through. Now, I do not have to explain to him my trials and tribulations even in this day and age. It really displays the courage of African-Americans and the respect that goes along with day to day struggles whether it be today or decades ago.Movie Review: "They were our country's best defense ... and its greatest glory"
Summary: 4 Stars
The Tuskegee Airmen (Laurence Fishburne) 106 minutes. (for a more historical account check out the PBS with the same title)
Movie starts out with the scene of a black kid on a farm watching a plane fly by. The narrator reads "We all have dreams, regardless of skin color." The Little kid screaming "Wait for me"
The director uses various scenes to show the ugly face of racism: The scene where the black cadets have to get off the train-car, then camera focuses on "whites only" sign for drinking fountain, and then the camera focuses on german prisoners getting off a bus, escorted by american white military soldiers. Quite a lot of symbolism for racism in one little scene. The black cadets are forced to give up their seats for german prisenoners of war (they had to go to the "Jim Crow car"). The introductary talk of the white commanding officer of the base to the newly arrived negro corp, was simply despicably racist, not just the expected putdown from commanding officer, but pure and un-adulterated hate.
The second shock, and this is to my own assumptions ... I was shocked when the negro cadets informally introduce each other and how cerebral some of them were (aeronautical engineer, pre-med, english literature, political science, art history, sociology, economics majors). These were some bright minds there on base to prove America that they could make it.
Another excellent example of contradictory racism, is when a negro pilot does an emergency landing, and the white sherrif watching over a group of negro convicts, a chaingang, says "It's one of our boys" and later learns the opposite.
I love it when the good wins while fighting the evil - the white major who gets in trouble with his commander for implementing his racist ideas.
If you want to comprehend the little nuances of racism and its evil, then this is a good movie to see. If you want to understand discrimination and racism in 1940s US (not Canada) while we Americans were fighting Nazis in Europe, as experienced on an airforce base, then this is a good movie to see. Not the whole presentation is profound, but there are moments of laughter, smiles, and chuckles.
In this movie only the ones "who want to learn how to fly" succeed above the rest - those who react instead of subversively ignore the racism around them . And the remaining negro cadets surely proved to be some pretty darn good pilots and US Airmen. It's an awefully great moment when racism is fought subversively and peacefully. And there are plenty of these moments in this movie.
Or the moment, when the Bomber white pilot locates the fighter pilots who saved his crews lives, but is actually upset when he finds out they are colored.
The movie has a beautiful turn, and ending. I will not spoil the details, just re-print the message of the last screen:
"The 332nd Fighter Group never lost a single bomber to enemy action."
Movie Review: The Tuskegee Airman the forgoten hero's
Summary: 5 Stars
Having been recommended to watch this movie I found it as genuine as any movie could be about a group of Black Americans wanting to do their bit for their country and prove to that they are as good as anyone else. They achieved this with humility, skill and professionalism without letting their colour getting in the way. Yet it took years for their achievement to be recognised. I wanted to know more about this squadron so I searched the net for the real Tuskegee Airmen and it's a pity the rest of the real story could not have been told.It is well worth watching and I do sympathise with their valiant effort as I am black and at one time held a pilot licence in England it had not changed in the 70's. Enjoy.Movie Review: ....
Summary: 5 Stars
I am in the Army, so watching this movie I really learned a lot about my armed forces history.Movie Review: A must see...
Summary: 5 Stars
...simple, but very well produced.
Nobody ever can tell this wasn't a major budget production in the business, with such a good team working together!
A touching story, after all...